A Week in World Photos

A voter observes election counting at the end of the first round of the presidential elections at a polling station in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Nov. 7.

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Residents look at destroyed houses after a fire engulfed a Navotas slum along Manila Bay in the Philippines on Nov. 8. Some 150 families were affected by the fire.

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A home is overshadowed by towering smoke plumes as a wildfire races through Paradise, California, on Nov. 8. The fire burned homes, businesses, a hospital, and a retirement home, essentially destroying the town and forcing thousands to evacuate.

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A shell of a car next to a gas station remain after the Camp fire tore through the region near Pulga, east of Paradise, California, on Nov. 11. The statewide death toll from wildfires rose to 31 with more than 200 missing and thousands of structures burned in California’s most destructive wildfire in history.

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A security official closes a curtain at the Great Hall of the People before a meeting between former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Nov. 8.

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A Malagasy fisherman tends to his net in the waters opposite the fishing community of Anakao, Madagascar, on Nov. 4. Already threatened by the effects of global warming, Malagasy fishermen see their traditional way of life threatened by Chinese fishing boats in their waters following the signing of a fishing agreement between Chinese investors and Madagascar parastatal entities.

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Ali Jawad, 12, who left school to support his family, works in an iron chains industry workshop on Haifa Street in Baghdad on Nov. 5.

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Firefighters raise a flag at Los Robles Hospital to hang over the procession carrying the body of Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus, who was killed in a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill, in Thousand Oaks, California, on Nov. 8. The 28-year-old gunman killed 12 people, including the officer.

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Revelers parade through the streets during the traditional Bonfire Night celebrations in Lewes, in East Sussex, England, on Nov. 5. Thousands of people attend the annual parade through the narrow streets until the evening comes to an end with the burning of an effigy usually representing Guy Fawkes, who died in 1605 after an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

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Yemeni pro-government forces advance toward the port area from the eastern outskirts of Hodeida as they battle for the Houthi rebel-controlled city on Nov. 6. Five days of battles between Iran-linked Houthi rebels and the army, allied with a regional military coalition led by Saudi Arabia, have left more than 150 combatants dead in the Red Sea province.

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U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks during a midterm election night party hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington on Nov. 6.

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U.S. Army soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, string razor wire near the port of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border in Donna, Texas, on Nov. 4. U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a surge in troops to the southern border ahead of the possible arrival of an immigrant caravan from Central America.

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A migrant headed toward the United States holds his dog during a stop at a temporary shelter in a sports center in Mexico City on Nov. 5.

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People walk past fish vendors as they shop near the New Mosque area in Istabul’s Eminonu district on Nov. 6.

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A young child hangs posters of Cameroonian President Paul Biya in Yaoundé on Nov. 6. Cameroon’s 85-year-old president vowed to pursue policies of decentralization to address “frustrations and aspirations” in English-speaking regions hit by separatist unrest as he was sworn in for a seventh term in office.

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British artist Rob Heard poses among 72,396 shrouded figures, which form his installation Shrouds of the Somme at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London on Nov. 7. The figures represent Commonwealth servicemen who died at the Somme who have no known grave and are on display to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.

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Employees observe a minute of silence in commemoration of Remembrance Day inside Lloyd’s of London on Nov. 9. In the run-up to Armistice Day, many Britons wear a paper red poppy—symbolizing the poppies that grew on French and Belgian battlefields during World War I.

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Newly graduated police officers attend the 127th anniversary of the Colombian Police at the General Santander police school in Bogotá on Nov. 6.

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Russian honor guards march during a military parade at Red Square in Moscow on Nov. 7. Russia marked the 77th anniversary of the 1941 parade, when Red Army soldiers marched past the Kremlin walls toward the front line to fight Nazi Germany troops during World War II.

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A man buys a snack from a vending machine next to a gorilla effigy in a corridor of the Palais de la Découverte in Paris on Nov. 6. The science museum contains permanent exhibits for astronomy, physics, mathematics, geology, chemistry, and biology.

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Vendors look at their phones at a market for banana leaves during Diwali in Hyderabad, India, on Nov. 7. People decorate the entrance of their homes and businesses with banana leaves during the Hindu festival of lights.

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A Pakistani Hindu lights firecrackers during Diwali celebrations in Karachi on Nov. 7.

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A priestess spits water on two eggs during the purification ceremony of the place of the Abissa, during a ceremony of reconciliation and forgiveness of the N'Zima Kotoko people, in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, on Nov. 7.

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A visitor walks past Frank Stella’s Gray Scramble during a press preview at Christie’s New York ahead of their Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Nov. 5.

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A pedestrian crosses a road near the Indian president’s house amid heavy smog in New Delhi on Nov. 8. Air pollution in New Delhi hit hazardous levels after a night of Diwali fireworks, despite Supreme Court efforts to curb partying that exacerbates the Indian capital’s toxic smog problem.

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A Yemeni child suffering from severe malnutrition is weighed at a treatment center in Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah province on Nov. 7. Thirty-five Yemeni and international nongovernmental organizations called for an immediate end to hostilities in Yemen, warning that 14 million people there were now on the brink of famine.

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Supporters of the Pakistani Islamist group Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal gather during a protest rally against the release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was charged with blasphemy, in Karachi on Nov. 8. Bibi, who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy, has been freed after an acquittal that triggered Islamist protests, but is still in Pakistan, officials said, amid appeals for her to be offered asylum.

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An Iraqi Kurdish woman sits in a house run by an NGO that takes care of people abandoned by their families in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, on Nov. 8.

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Waves break in the port of Lesconil, western France, on Nov. 7.

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A 3-year-old girl plays with a model of a sleeping dragon in the hall of Chatsworth House, which has been decorated for their Christmas season in various fairytale scenes, near Bakewell, northern England, on Nov. 8.

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A Week in World Photos

Election watching in Madagascar, World War I remembrance in London, and Diwali celebrations in India.